How to Get More Retweets on Twitter

Twitter is about making news, information and content flow across the social web.

It is loved by politicians, often used badly by celebrities and is a bloggers best friend. Twitter is often misunderstood as it has a funny name, can be seen as trivial (only 140 characters) and available in boring mono-media (text only).

Scratch its surface and start to dig deeper and Twitter’s true character starts to be revealed. It is nimble, efficient and it works well in a time poor society.

It has developed multi-media capabilities and YouTube videos, images and even Slideshare presentations are viewable and can be embedded in the stream of tweets.

There are two basic principles that will help you get your tweets to be shared by your followers in large numbers.

Quantity – Build a significant following on Twitter as bigger is better.

Quality – Engage with your followers and build a loyal and fanatical fan base that will love to share your tweets.

Combine these two and you are well on the way to having your news, information and content retweeted widely at velocity.

So how do you get more retweets on Twitter?

10 top tips to get more retweets

There are some basic tips that will help you get your tweets retweeted more. Some are obvious and others may surprise you.

Here are some easy to implement tips on how to get more retweets.

Ask for a retweet (eg. “Please ReTweet”)

Tweet links

Pick the right time of day (Tweet between 12-2)

Leave room for a retweet (The sweet spot for a retweet is use between 71-100 characters)

Use hashtags

Include one of the top retweetable phrases

Write a tempting headline

Pick the right day of the week (Friday)

Don’t make the tweet about you

Tweet the latest news

Here is an infographic which puts the art of getting retweeted on Twitter in a visual format.

You are right. Twitter has emerged as a very strong and effective marketing tool in the arena of social media. Everyone is busy and many don’t like reading all the stuff in a go. The short and simple also helps us to enrich it with high quality as there is no scope for stuffing useless words. I am sure that people with right acumen are using it in the right ways.

Thanks for sharing your deep insights and motivating us to understand the power of social media marketing style using Twitter.

Alastair

12am – 2pm? Doesn’t make sense!

http://jeffbullas.com Jeff Bullas

Middle of the day!

Kuratur

I think that’s supposed to be 12 PM to 2 PM. It’s written below the clock icon as “noon to 2 pm”.

Perk Idea

Twitter is also a community of like minded folks. I use twitter to inspire, to motivate, to add value, build new relationships. Well done Jeff.